The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Clary Sage
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom snaps first, its cool-green bite slicing through a bergamot flash that feels more lime-peel than orange. Within minutes the spice folds into clary sage’s fuzzy lavender-like aromatics, while patchouli brings a clean, leaf-dusted earth that keeps the heart from turning creamy. Amber and vanilla warm slowly, never sugary; they sheath the remaining spice in a sheer, skin-close resin that stays dry thanks to a quiet musk anchor. Projection sits at arm’s length for five hours before relaxing into a soft wood-tinged glow, ideal for cool spring nights or an air-conditioned office.
Scent twins
In this family
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
